EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF FVTRS SKILL TRAINING PROGRAMME
JULY 2015 TO NOVEMBER 2015
In India the demand for skilled workforce has risen to support the growing economy, the youth of the country, particularly from marginalized communities, is not yet gainfully employed due to, inter alia, lack of skills and capital. This only increases the extent of distress migration and the young persons landing up in various unskilled jobs. The situation of the young women is worse, with limited safe mobility options and discrimination at home.Functional Vocational Training and Research Society (FVTRS) is trying to address this issue with a mission to make the target community from socially marginalized sections – school dropout and illiterate youth – employable by building their skills to earn quality living through a job of their choice, or preferably as entrepreneurs to generate more employment for others. FVTRS has adopted a partnership model and currently implements projects through more than 80 partners in different States of India.
In order to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the FVTRS program in terms of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability, an evaluation was conducted by an external team comprising of Mr. Khilesh Chaturvedi, Ms. Rosy Choudhury and Mr. Munish Kaushik. The evaluation was conducted from July to November 2015 using a participatory methodology. Besides consultations with FVTRS team, 15 partners from 10 states from all the zones (North, East, North East, West, Central and South) were visited,including meeting the youth who have completed or undergoing the training.
The specific objectives of the evaluation were
- To assess FVTRS’ sprogramme with the criteria “relevance”, “effectiveness”, “efficiency”, and “sustainability” and identify the strengths, good practices and weaknesses.
- To recommend options, approaches and strategies for enhancing the strengths and reducing the weaknesses and making the programme sustainable